Erwin from Sommaruga

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Erwin von Sommaruga , full name Erwin Franz Freiherr von Sommaruga (born September 26, 1844 in Vienna , † May 10, 1897 in Riva del Garda ) was an Austrian chemist and university professor.

Life

Sommaruga grew up in Vienna and completed his school education there with the Matura . He then studied chemistry from 1861 at the University of Vienna . He became a member of the Corps Saxonia Vienna . As an inactive he went to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1862/1863 , which made him Dr. phil. PhD . In 1864 he worked at the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory and then at the sulfuric acid factory in Unterheiligenstadt .

From 1866 to 1870 he was an assistant for chemistry at the Technical University of Vienna , where he completed his habilitation in 1870 . He then worked as a private lecturer at the university's chemical laboratory and completed his habilitation there again in 1872. He researched and then taught at the University of Vienna , where he was appointed associate professor for chemistry in 1879 . In 1890/1891 Sommaruga did a research stay in Berlin, where he was enthusiastic about bacteriological issues. After returning to Vienna, however, his attempt to establish a chemical-bacteriological department failed there.

In 1867 he was a founding member of the Vienna Ice Skating Club .

Fonts

  • About the equivalents of cobalt and nickel , Vienna 1866

literature

  • L. Eisenberg: Das Geistige Wien - Artist and Writer Lexicon , (Vol. 2 "Medicinisch - Naturwissenschaftlicher Part"); Vienna 1892, p. 451
  • Johann C. Poggendorff: Biographisch - literary concise dictionary for the history of exact science , vol. 3, p. 1266.
  • D. Angetter:  Sommaruga Erwin Franz Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 410.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 135 , 32
personal data
SURNAME Sommaruga, Erwin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sommaruga, Erwin Franz Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1897
Place of death Riva del Garda